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Further information about the Queen’s Personal Statement workshop is here.
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— SAT Reasoning Prep (@SATPrep) October 2, 2016
Further information about the Queen’s Personal Statement workshop is here.
A New #SAT Aims to Realign With Schoolwork http://t.co/ZchLPoK46J and affirms importance of #SATPrep
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Saying its college admission exams do not focus enough on the important academic skills, the College Board announced on Wednesday a fundamental rethinking of the SAT, ending the longstanding penalty for guessing wrong, cutting obscure vocabulary words and making the essay optional.
The president of the College Board, David Coleman, criticized his own test, the SAT, and its main rival, the ACT, saying that both had “become disconnected from the work of our high schools.”
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
New #SAT: The essay portion is to become optional http://t.co/maPnGhjPtx via @YahooNews
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The new exam will be rolled out in 2016, so this year’s ninth graders will be the first to take it, in their junior year. The new SAT will continue to test reading, writing and math skills, with an emphasis on analysis. Scoring will return to a 1,600-point scale last used in 2004, with a separate score for the optional essay.
For the first time, students will have the option of taking the test on computers.
Once the predominant college admissions exam, the SAT in recent years has been overtaken in popularity by the competing ACT, which has long been considered more curriculum based. The ACT offers an optional essay and announced last year it would begin making computer-based testing available in 2015.
Israel vs. #2 pencils: Israel refuses to allow SAT tests to enter the West Bank http://t.co/7zKxJihB – #SAT test becomes part of politics
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If English is not your mother tongue or you are applying to a college or university from outside North America, you may be asked to demonstrate your proficiency in English. A large number of schools will ask that you take either the TOEFL (“Test of English as a Foreign Language”) or the IELTS (“International English Language Testing System). The TOEFL is a U.S. based test and will test American English. The IELTS is a British based test and will test British English.
Here is an article to help you decide wither to take take the TOEFL or IELTS.
Famous SAT Instructor in Seoul Kidnapped
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/01/113_59983.html
A well-known instructor who teaches the U.S. standardized Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) was kidnapped and was forced to sign a renewal contract, amid the widening police investigation into the recent leakage of questions of the test, the Hankook Ilbo said Saturday. Continue reading
High-school students’ performance last year on the SAT college-entrance exam fell slightly, and the score gap generally widened between lower-performing minority groups and white and Asian-American students, raising questions about the effectiveness of national education reform efforts. Continue reading
May 20, 2009
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“Agreed – a lot of the courses are not great – but the right one-on-one SAT tutor (who makes the kids work) is worth his/her weight in gold. I believe college administrators are saying the politically correct thing. It was obvious to me (twice) that their is an advantage to students who can afford good SAT prep. Best money I spent – would do it again.”
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